Sign Petition to tax mining companies for fuel

From 350 Australia email

This week, petrol prices are set to rise for households with the government halving the fuel tax cut. But big polluting mining companies are still getting their discounted fuel. 

The Fuel Tax Credit refunds the tax they pay on diesel. It’s so big that mining giant BHP claimed a whopping $622 million in fuel credits last year.[1]

But if the government put a $50million cap on the scheme, it’d end the free ride for the big mining companies. Will you sign the petition in support?

You know the mining industry is feeling the heat when they start pumping out shiny new ads. And that’s just what happened last week. The coal industry is scrambling to shore up support for not paying tax on their fuel.

This tax loophole benefits mining companies to the tune of at least $4.5 billion a year. That’s billions that could be spent on communities across the continent, instead of on big polluters.

Because while big mining companies are taking billions in subsidies, communities across the continent are paying the price for their pollution. It’s just not fair.

Every dollar of missed tax is money that could be going to communities facing the impacts of escalating climate disasters like storms, fires, heatwaves and floods. We need a community climate compensation fund, not to line the pockets of fossil fuel executives. 

Getting mining giants to pay tax is just the first step towards making big polluters pay their fair share for the cost of climate damage.

Campaign to save Scott Reef

From Surfers for Climate

The wild wave off WA that’s too far to enjoy but too good to destroy, and how Woodside wants to drill 57 gas wells around it.

For the first time under Australian law, the environment minister has to weigh up what a gas project would do to the climate before approving it. In Woodside’s case, that means answering what the emissions from its Browse gas project (the largest ever proposed) would do to the Great Barrier Reef.

New modelling from Professor Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick, a lead author on the IPCC reports, found those emissions would kill an extra 29.3 million coral colonies on the Reef during every future mass bleaching event.

The case against Browse has only got stronger since Woodside first applied back in 2018 and now the public gets a say for the first time in eight years.

But the submission window shuts on 21 July, so we need your support now.

Answer three quick multiple-choice questions and we’ll carry your words in our submission to the environment minister. Only takes one minute, but it could change the future of Scott Reef.
HAVE YOUR SAY BEFORE 21 JULY